The Large Hadron Collider shows its insides as upgrade work commences ( +11 photos)

The CMS detector's overall diameter is 15 meters and it is 28.7 meters long. At its core, the detector has silicon trackers which output 1 petabyte of data per second using using about 75 million channels.

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